Title: Touring with the Alien Title Record # 2005958
Author: Carolyn Ives Gilman
Date: 2016-04-08
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
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Translations
Year Language Title 2016ⓘItalian translation of Touring with the Alien Translated by Annarita Guarnieri Italian In viaggio con l'alieno 2018ⓘTranslated by Pierre-Paul Durastanti French Voyage avec l'extraterrestre

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
13	2017 Locus	Best Novelette
2	2017 Sturgeon	Best Short Science Fiction
3 ⓘ Finalist Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 Pass 4 Touring with the Alien 629 644 648 858 The Jewel and Her Lapidary 632 641 645 837 The Art of Space Travel 469 480 487 No Award 96 101 Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex 62 74 nominating ballots with 52.67 final points.	2017 Hugo	Best Novelette
Win (as Voyage avec l'extraterrestre)	2019 Imaginaire	Nouvelle étrangère

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Clarkesworld, April 2016	2016-04-08	ed. Neil Clarke	Clarkesworld Magazine	978-0-692-68286-9	$6.99?$: US dollar	158	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	mag	Rudy Faber
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2	2017-04-04	ed. Neil Clarke	Night Shade Books	978-1-59780-896-5	$17.99?$: US dollar	xii+ 611	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Markus Vogt
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2	2017-04-04	ed. Neil Clarke	Night Shade Books	978-1-59780-589-6	$9.99?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth	Markus Vogt
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven	2017-04-06	ed. Jonathan Strahan	Solaris	978-1-84997-933-7	£6.99?£: UK pound		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth	Dominic Harman
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven	2017-04-18	ed. Jonathan Strahan	Solaris	978-1-78108-562-2	$19.99?$: US dollar	599+ [9]	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Dominic Harman
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9	2017-06-20	ed. Allan Kaster	Infinivox	978-1-5481-8298-4	$15.99?$: US dollar	266	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Maurizio Manzieri
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9	2017-06-30	ed. Allan Kaster	Infinivox	978-1-884612-69-5	$37.99?$: US dollar		audio CD?Compact disc with standard audio tracks	anth	Maurizio Manzieri
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9	2017-06-30	ed. Allan Kaster	Audiotext		$26.59?$: US dollar		digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	anth	Maurizio Manzieri
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9	2017-06-30	ed. Allan Kaster	Infinivox		$4.99?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth	Maurizio Manzieri
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection	2017-07-00	ed. Gardner Dozois	St. Martin's Griffin	978-1-250-11924-7	$22.99?$: US dollar	xxxix+ 660	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Jim Burns
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection	2017-07-00	ed. Gardner Dozois	St. Martin's Griffin	978-1-250-11923-0	$40.00?$: US dollar	xxxix+ 660	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	James Burns (I)
Mondi senza fine - parte 1	2018-03-18	ed. Gardner Dozois	Mondadori (Urania Millemondi #80)		€7.90?€: Euro	378	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Franco Brambilla
Bifrost, Juillet 2018	2018-07-00	ed. Olivier Girard	Le Bélial'?Le Belial'	978-2-913039-88-9	€11.00?€: Euro	196	A5?14.8 cm by 21 cm or 5.8" by 8.3" magazine, used by some UK and European magazines	mag
Not One of Us: Stories of Aliens on Earth	2018-11-06	ed. Neil Clarke	Night Shade Books	978-1-59780-651-0	$10.99?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth	Jacques Leyreloup
Not One of Us: Stories of Aliens on Earth	2018-11-13	ed. Neil Clarke	Night Shade Books	978-1-59780-957-3	$17.99?$: US dollar	xi+ 592	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Jacques Leyreloup
Clarkesworld Year Ten: Volume Two	2019-10-02	ed. Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace	Wyrm Publishing	978-1-64236-021-9	$6.99?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth	Rudy Faber
Clarkesworld Year Ten: Volume Two	2019-10-03	ed. Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace	Wyrm Publishing	978-1-64236-022-6	$17.99?$: US dollar	451	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Rudy Faber

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Reviews

• Review by Tom Feller (2017) in Tightbeam, #280